Reply #107: Maybe [View All]

I'm sure there's a hard-core percent of racists who would never vote for Obama, but that's present everywhere. But IMO that's not the reason why many people voted for Clinton & it's sort of stereotyping to say that every voter in KY, PA, WV, OH, who voted for Clinton is a racist redneck. Especially in Appalachia, people have a lot of goodwill for the Clintons, because the Clintons came there often & life improved overall during Bill Clinton's presidency. They're familiar, a known entity. Obama isn't familiar, so is mistrusted. The best way to overcome that is for Obama to just campaign there, introduce himself, prove he's not the evil radical bogeyman that talk radio is claiming. I'm sure there's some that could never be convinced, but there's many that COULD. And IMO it'd be worth making the effort in order to help keep these states in the Dem column for the general election. If Obama's campaign is all about creating "unity", that should extend to Appalachian Democrats as well as Republicans.